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BASKETBALL
Mar 26, 2009

Sea Horses repeat as JBL champs

David Young scored 20 points and J.R. Sakuragi added 17 to lead the Aisin Sea Horses to a 79-59 championship-clinching victory over the Hitachi Sunrockers in Game 4 of the Japan Basketball League Finals on Wednesday at Yoyogi Gymnasium Annex.
BASKETBALL
Mar 25, 2009

Broncos' Shimizu grabs award

Saitama Broncos guard Taishiro Shimizu is entering his prime as a professional basketball player. In a sign of things to come, he showcased his offensive and defensive skills with equal efficiency last weekend.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 25, 2009

Brown's flexibility helping Cavaliers excel

CLEVELAND — Normally, a hiring of a coach ahead of a general manager is an NBA recipe for restiveness, if not all-out revolution.
BASKETBALL
Mar 23, 2009

Sea Horses take 2-1 series lead

J.R. Sakuragi scored 20 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to lead five players in double figures as the Aisin Sea Horses defeated the Hitachi Sunrockers 81-71 in Game 3 of the Japan Basketball League finals on Sunday in Tokyo.
BASKETBALL
Mar 22, 2009

Rice, Takeuchi lead Sunrockers to series-tying win

Lamar Rice scored a game-high 20 points and frontcourt mate Joji Takeuchi added 18 as the Hitachi Sunrockers edged the Aisin Sea Horses 65-62 in Game 2 of the Japan Basketball League finals on Saturday at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
BASKETBALL
Mar 18, 2009

Sunrockers advance to JBL finals

The Hitachi Sunrockers earned a trip to the Japan Basketball League finals, defeating the Panasonic Trians 76-62 in the decisive Game 3 of the playoff semifinals on Monday in Tokyo.
BASKETBALL
Mar 16, 2009

Sea Horses advance to JBL finals

Shinsuke Kashiwagi scored 23 points and J.R. Sakuragi added 17 to lead the Aisin Sea Horses to a 67-62 series-clinching victory over the Tokyo Alvark in Game 2 of the Japan Basketball League semifinals on Sunday at Tokyo's Yoyogi Gymnasium Annex.
BASKETBALL
Mar 14, 2009

Aisin's Takeuchi named JBL MVP

Aisin Sea Horses center/forward Kosuke Takeuchi is the Japan Basketball League's 2008-09 regular-season MVP, it was announced on Thursday.
BASKETBALL
Mar 6, 2009

Apache rebound with win

How a team plays in the game after a loss is often a more revealing test of a team's character than a game that occurs after a victory. Ancient Greek philosophers have said similar things, but they never watched basketball.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Mar 4, 2009

Nakagawa, Ashby cited for performance in Feb.

With the addition of point guard Kazuyuki Nakagawa, the Takamatsu Five Arrows became a more potent basketball team in January.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2009

'Halfway'

"Halfway" ("Harufuwei") has one of those katakana titles that is supposed to sound vaguely exotic and mysterious to its intended audience — Japanese of about the same age as its teenage protagonists — but may strike native speakers as prosaic, even boring.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 18, 2009

Hawkins as elusive off court as he was on it

PHOENIX — For weeks and weeks I called every person I thought who might be able to put me in touch with Arizona's first sports superstar.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 11, 2009

Kobe, LeBron embarrassed Knicks at home

NEW YORK — It's amazing the way the Knicks are genuflecting to superstars the days.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 31, 2009

Five Arrows lose Leach for season

The Takamatsu Five Arrows will vie for the franchise's first championship without one of their most vital players, center George Leach.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME NOTEBOOK
Jan 26, 2009

Hometown hero Suzuki pips Garrison in 3-Point Contest

Oita HeatDevils guard Yukinori Suzuki triumphed in the 3-Point Contest, ending Matt Garrison's two-year reign as champion.
BASKETBALL
Jan 13, 2009

Sea Horses strike early to defend hoops title

It wasn't the most fitting game for the final, but in a sense the highly-defensive contest showed the weight of the annual Emperor's Cup title.
BASKETBALL
Dec 29, 2008

Winning Apache give Bryant sweet dreams

Losing can cause insomnia.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / INSIDE LOOK
Dec 28, 2008

Matsui flourishes in his role as a backup

NEW YORK — Team update: Columbia University shooting guard K.J. Matsui has started five of his team's 10 games this season. The senior is averaging 7.7 points per game.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 23, 2008

School bridges China-Japan gap

At first glance it seems to be a typical lunch break at a local Japanese school: Boys rambunctiously chasing one another and yanking at each other's white polo shirts, little girls twirling so hard in their pleated gray skirts that they fall down with squeals of glee.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 19, 2008

Parity keeps things interesting in bj-league

Coaches and players have stated on many occasions this season that the bj-league is an ultra-competitive league and that there are no guaranteed victories, especially in the second game of a two-game series.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 17, 2008

D'Antoni proud of time with Suns despite team's failure to win a title

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Mike D'Antoni openly admitted Monday night's return to Phoenix, his home for six seasons, is a "big deal" to him.
BASKETBALL
Dec 14, 2008

Apache offer apologies as Gardener leads Phoenix to blowout victory

During the pre-game shooting drills on Saturday, Tokyo Apache guard Darin Satoshi Maki walked over to the courtside press table to greet a few reporters. Then he said, "You came to see the Great Wall."
BASKETBALL
Dec 10, 2008

Ishibashi named Grouses' new coach

Former Japan national team center Takatoshi Ishibashi has been named the new head coach of the Toyama Grouses, the bj-league team announced on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
Nov 24, 2008

Newton's impressive play helps Golden Kings sweep Sendai

It's safe to assume that Jeff Newton will never forget Nov. 22, 2008. After all, it was the night he scored 40 points, grabbed 30 rebounds and played 48 exhausting minutes in the Ryukyu Golden Kings' 108-105 double-overtime win over the Sendai 89ers.
Reader Mail
Nov 20, 2008

Sumo rules in parts of Nebraska

Please encourage NHK to continue English broadcasts of sumo. My friends and I drink beer, eat chips and enjoy all 15 days of watching our favorites fight. I'm not a football, baseball or basketball fan, but love sumo for its quick one-on-one action.
BASKETBALL
Nov 16, 2008

Matsui scores 3 in season-opener

Senior shooting guard K.J. Matsui and Columbia University ushered in the 2008-09 college basketball season with a 65-62 victory over Fordham University on Friday evening in New York.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 14, 2008

Apache facing test against major foes

Coming off a bye week, the Tokyo Apache now face a tough stretch of games.
BASKETBALL
Nov 11, 2008

Golden Kings win late to stay perfect at 8-0

With eight games in the books, the Ryukyu Golden Kings have had the basketball equivalent of a perfect hand of cards since the season's opening tipoff. And it's as if Ryukyu coach Dai Oketani has seen nothing but aces.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2008

Chinese directors venture to Hollywood and back

The "Red Cliff" saga, which John Woo has called his dream project, marks the iconic action director's return to his native China, if not necessarily to Hong Kong, where he made his mark.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 19, 2008

Sun blocks out Sendai in first game

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Pref. — Sun Ming Ming didn't steal the spotlight in his highly anticipated bj-league debut, but he enjoyed a respectable outing in the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix's first game of the 2008-09 season.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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